Re: Lua / Freenet = Strong AI

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On Monday 12 Aug 2013 08:48:20 [email protected] wrote:
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> Hi, i'm Julien from France.
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> I like Freenet, i first want to thank you all for working on it. It's gre=
at !
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> I have a project i'd like to talk about.
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> It's about Freenet, Lua, and strong AI.
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> On Wikipedia's AI page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intellig=
ence ),
> we can see there's a lot of different approaches, tools, systems, mechani=
sms,
> mathematics, databases, whatever... The idea is to integrate every invent=
ion
> ever made into a single entity. I guess it's not the first let's-put-all-=
in-one
> kind of idea...
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> Rather than a long boring text, i'd sum it up with the following main con=
cepts :
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> freenet
> - shared memory space
> - files are deleted only when not used
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> node
> - can be a home computer
> - also shares unused CPU (a bit like BOINC)
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> tables
> - are associative arrays (Lua syntax)
> - are files
> - associate "key" files with "value" files
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> files
> - any kind of file
> - published, read, and modified by actors
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> actors
> - can be software Agent (static location, any kind of executable)
> - can be Human user terminal (static location, maybe configurable GUI)
> - can be Luapse (Lua synapse) (variable location, small Lua program)
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> propagation
> - each file has a list of actors to warn (automatically) when it is modif=
ied or
> "touched"
> - these warnings contain only the file's ID
> - actors can also "touch" files : make them propagate without modifying t=
hem
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> Most of the work is done by software Agents, which are big programs, loca=
ted
> (and staying) each on one node, implemented in any language, running on a=
ny
> platform. Each Agent can perform very well the specific type of task it h=
as been
> made for (like bayesian inference, genetic programming, goal-based path f=
inding,
> image analysis, big ontology stuff, ...etc), using local ressources. Typi=
cally,
> an Agent takes some files as input, and outputs another file, in another =
format.
> When its input files are modified, the Agent is warned, so it can modify =
its
> output file(s). There are also Luapses, which are tiny Lua programs used =
as glue
> : propagation, condition tests, simple table updating... A Luapse can be =
stored
> redundantly on several nodes.
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> I'd like to know if such a project would be welcome on Freenet. It might
> generate a lot of files and activity. I don't want to interfere with Free=
net's
> primary objective, which is freedom of speech.
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> What do you think ?

Sounds a bit handwavy at this point. But have fun with it; more apps are un=
likely to be a bad thing.

It sounds like it's too soon to determine whether it would create significa=
nt traffic ... likely this depends on how many people are using it.

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